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Author | : Marvin Dunn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780813041636 |
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A symbolic embodiment of racial violence and hatred, “The Beast” openly prowled the nation between the Civil War and the civil rights movement. The reasons it appeared varied, with psychological, political, and economic dynamics all playing a part, but the outcome was always brutal--if not deadly. From the bombing of Harriette and Harry T. Moore’s home on Christmas Day to Willie James Howard’s murder, from the Rosewood massacre to the Newberry Six lynchings, Marvin Dunn offers an encyclopedic catalogue of The Beast’s rampages in Florida. Instead of simply taking snapshots of incidents, Dunn provides context for a century’s worth of racial violence by examining communities over time. Crucial insights from interviews with descendants of both perpetrators and victims shape this study of Florida’s grim racial history. Rather than pointing fingers and placing blame, The Beast in Florida allows voices and facts to speak for themselves, facilitating a conversation on the ways in which racial violence changed both black and white lives forever. With this comprehensive and balanced look at racially motivated events, Dunn reveals the Sunshine State’s too-often forgotten—or intentionally hidden—past. The result is a panorama of compelling human stories: its emergent dialogue challenges conceptions of what created and maintained The Beast.
Author | : Lynn Waddell |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2013-09-17 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0813047811 |
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Most people visit the Sunshine State for its theme parks and beaches, but there is another side to Florida, an underbelly few tourists ever see, a periphery most residents know about but--out of decorum or discomfort--prefer not to discuss. In Fringe Florida, Lynn Waddell explores the frequently exotic, often sensational, and sometimes illicit worlds of the oddest state in the nation. Waddell takes the reader on a colorful journey to meet the most unconventional of Floridians in unbelievable and spectacular places. At Fetish Con, she befriends furries and pony girls. She travels to Cassadaga, the oldest active Spiritualist community in the South, where trained mediums converse with the dead, and to the Holy Land Experience theme park in Orlando, where one can eat a hot dog while watching a reenactment of the Crucifixion. She interviews the founder of the Leather & Lace Motorcycle Club, a Daytona Beach-area grandmother who hosts the club's annual gathering at her subdivision home where scores of lady bikers camp out on her lawn. At an Animal Amnesty Day outside Busch Gardens, Waddell meets exotic reptile owners who give up their beloved-but no-longer-manageable pets and others who vie to take home the cast-offs. If you've ever wanted to parade around on a pimped-out swamp buggy amidst a couple thousand beer-swigging mud boggers or fall asleep with a python hissing in your ear, been tempted to bring a Capuchin monkey in a stroller to a Little League game, or contemplated sitting on the beach waiting to be picked up by a UFO but couldn’t quite bring yourself to such extremes, Fringe Florida is for you.
Author | : Marvin Dunn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2016-05-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781519372673 |
Download A History of Florida Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
I know Florida. I was born in Florida during the reign of Jim Crow and have lived to see black astronauts blasted into the heavens from Cape Canaveral. For three quarters of a century I have lived mostly in Florida. I have seen her flowers and her warts. This book is about both. People of African descent have been in Florida from the arrival of Ponce de Leon in 1513, yet our presence in the state is virtually hidden. A casual glance at most Florida history books depict African Americans primarily as laborers who are shown as backdrops to white history. The history of blacks in Florida has been deliberately distorted, omitted and marginalized. We have been denied our heroes and heroines. Our stories have mainly been left untold. This book lifts the veil from some of these stories and places African Americans in the very marrow of Florida history.
Author | : Craig Pittman |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2020-01-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1488098719 |
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A Garden & Gun Best Book of 2020 “Witty and passionate.” —Lauren Groff “Craig Pittman has a remarkable talent for telling stories set in the Sunshine State that never fail to fascinate and entertain.”—Gilbert King “The definitive book on one of America’s least understood apex predators. The story of how Florida’s panthers were saved from extinction is one that both deserves and needs to be told.” —Dane Huckelbridge The captivating tale of the Florida panther, its survival and rescue from extinction With novelistic detail and an eye for the absurd, Craig Pittman recounts the extraordinary story of the people who brought the panther back from the brink of extinction, the ones who nearly pushed the species over the edge, and the cats that were caught in the middle. This being Florida, there's more than a little weirdness, too. An engrossing narrative of wry humor, sharp writing and exhaustive reportage, Cat Tale shows what it takes to bring one species back and what unexpected costs such a decision brings.
Author | : T. D. Allman |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802120768 |
Download Finding Florida Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offers a comprehensive look at the history of the state of Florida, from its discovery, exploration, and settlement through its becoming a state, to notable events in the early twenty-first century.
Author | : Greg Jenkins |
Publisher | : Pineapple Press Inc |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2010-10-15 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1561644773 |
Download Chronicles of the Strange and Uncanny in Florida Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Chronicles of the Strange and Uncanny in Florida explores the unknown for those who wish to look beyond the confines of everyday life to discover the truly unusual. It explores Florida's darker avenues for evidence of the extraordinary and the fantastic. Investigate sightings of flying saucers, extraterrestrials, and strange aerial phenomena. Meet skunk apes, chupacabras, and other creatures of the night. And in Florida's lakes and seas, meet aquatic abnormalities like sea monsters, the Everglades water serpent, and the three-toed beast of Clearwater Beach.
Author | : Meish Goldish |
Publisher | : Bearport Publishing |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2007-07-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1597165077 |
Download Florida Manatees Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explains why Florida manatees became an endangered species, and describes the efforts of scientists to bring them back from the brink of extinction.
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Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781402738173 |
Download The Twelve Days of Christmas in Florida Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Through letters and a funny story based on the classic Christmas song, popular illustrator Remkiewicz takes youngsters on a holiday trip to Florida while presenting fun facts about the Sunshine State. Full color.
Author | : Horacio Silva |
Publisher | : Assouline Publishing |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1614289522 |
Download Miami Beach Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Considered by many as the country’s most dynamic, fastest growing and sexiest city, Miami is more popular than ever before. Yet, it is a city that doesn’t merely change but evolves, never rewriting the past, just adding to its illustrious heritage. And this is the real beauty of Miami. The chic Surf Club and the vibrant Faena Hotel did not replace the emblematic Raleigh of the 1940s nor the Ritz Carlton of the 50s, rather they complement them. Classics like Joe’s Stone Crab continue to serve their signature fare to sell-out crowds each night, as new establishments attract with name chefs. The iconic art deco architecture remains on full display as the modern Herzog & de Meuron-designed Perez Art Museum stands in stark contrast. Replete with arts and culture year round from the international art at The Bass to the street art of Wynwood Walls, each December, the city is taken over by the global cultural elite for Art Basel Miami Beach, a fair that attracts over 80,000 visitors who turn out for the momentous art, such as Maurizio Cattelan’s show stopping “Comedian”, and the exuberant festivities hosted each evening.
Author | : James Ponti |
Publisher | : NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780941263429 |
Download Hollywood East Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of more than 125 movies made in Florida.